"During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, states' rights again become strongly associated with Southern racial politics, with proponents of racial segregation and Jim Crow laws denouncing federal interference in these state-level policies. In 1948, pro-segregationist Strom Thurmond broke with the Democratic Party and formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, also known as the "Dixiecrats." Critics proclaimed the states' rights movement to be a smoke screen for continuing racial discrimination."

"The phrase, Southern strategy, was coined by Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips. For the years 1948 - 1984, the southern states, traditionally a stronghold for the Democratic Party became key swing states, providing the popular vote margins in the Presidential elections 1960, 1968 and 1976. During this era, several Republican candidates expressed support for states' rights, which critics have argued was intended as a signal of opposition to federal civil rights legislation for blacks. This strategy was largely a success, and the South is now considered a Republican stronghold in national elections."

"Recently, some prankster has hacked some old Cadillac ads to make them explicity endorse what they said implicitly anyway (incredibly "evil" White ideals of excellence and exclusivity). I'm deeply shocked that anyone would do this."

however, there is some dissonance going on, as it appears the kevin strom guy is some type of white supremacist.